"Seek training from outside sources."-- Pat McNamarahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWv7NndBf68 Sgt. Maj. McNamara was talking about modern warriors in our armed forces, and how they have broken out of the institutional inertia and institutional inbreeding. Proprioception and Kinesthetic Sense.

"Failure to plan is a plan for failure."-- [I couldn't find the primary source.]

Best Of The Blog - 2014by Michael R. SeeklanderExcerpt:Grip Surfaces - To increase your ability to control the recoil, and manipulate the gun, all allowable grip surfaces should be stippled or coated with skateboard tape, with the exception of the back strap of the gun. The backstrap of the gun should be left relatively smooth to allow the strong hand to index the gun properly and slide up to a high grip position on the tang of the weapon during the draw process.www.freeguntraining.com/www.shooting-performance.comwww.blog.shooting-performance.com

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I heard a program on the radio on the way to work this morning, 2/16/16. The speaker was saying how gun schools and churches are similar in that some are concerned with growing to maximize their profit and so resort to entertainment as opposed to education. Some are concerned with education and so teach breaking bad habits to replace them with good habits, study (research), practice (homework), and a lot of thinking in general, things which most people don't want to do. So, such schools or churches don't grow very big. I've been to the big gun schools, some have massive internet audiences. But, looking at my notes from the past decades, I see that I've learned the most from small classes (often, I was the only student who showed up for the class) with NRA instructors and non-NRA instructors teaching in their homes or small facilities, because they loved helping others.

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Lifesaving Advice From Dave Canterburyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je_mEnfKNXU Trapping and fishing is more effective than hunting. Survival in adverse conditions. Tool heavy mentality. All skills are perishable. I don't mind that you don't care how to make a fire,because you're too busy playing Mindcraft. When it becomes important to you, I'll teach you how to do it.[What a fantastic attitude!]

Blogger.com says that DefensivePistolcraft.comgot 6222 page views last month.So, either one of you gave the URL so some bot,or we got a lot of people looking at this blog
(which I find hard to believe).

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Real Reason You Trainhttp://chadhowsefitness.com/2016/01/the-real-reason-you-train?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BringingBackManliness+%28Bringing+Back+Manliness+|+Alpha+Male+|+Chad+Howse+Fitness%29 If you're going to get a big ass dog, invest in training it. So, it doesn't kill your child. I can refer you to several competent (and professional) dog trainers in Tennessee and South Carolina. ---"Fear Is Your Friend" by Dave Spaulding [Sorry, I don't know where the original article was published. I received a copy by email.]http://www.handguncombatives.com/Excerpts: Autogenic breathing, what's also called "combat" or "rescue" breathing, is the primary method to keep you from becoming overwhelmed by fear. By breathing in for a count of four, holding for four, letting out for four and then holding again for four, the heart rate can be lowered substantially in 10 repetitions or so. When you lower your heart rate, you'll have a more rational mode of thought. I've used this technique for everything — from a promotion interview to being shot at — and it works. Knowing the physiological effects of combat stress and fear (pounding heart, muscle tension, trembling, rapid breathing, nausea, "gut knot," dry mouth, tunnel vision, etc.) and understanding they're naturally occurring phenomena will make you better prepared. Developing the skills needed to meet the threat and knowing that these skills have worked in combat, will add confidence and help you manage fear. Also, once you truly understand the pandemonium that conflict entails (not what's portrayed in Hollywood films), you'll be less willing to enter it — and that's not a bad thing. Bottom line: Once you understand fear, you can use it to your advantage. Remember: "Right now, someone is training so
when they meet you, they beat you. Train hard and
stay on guard." -- Dennis Martin "The final weapon is the brain ... all else is supplemental." -- Ernest Hemingway ---Do you carry religiously? You may not be as safe as you believe.http://www.grantcunningham.com/2016/01/do-you-carry-religiously-you-may-not-be-as-protected-as-you-think-you-are/ The "well known instructor" referred to is Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch. ---“My gun kept you safe” – no it didn’thttp://blog.hsoi.com/2016/01/23/my-gun-kept-you-safe-no-it-didnt/ Follow up to the article directly above.If you believe the logic that guns don't murder people,people murder people, guns are inanimate objects; then if follows that guns don't make people safe, people make people safe. Of course, the truth is that only the sheepdogs make the sheep safe. Sheep who flee at the onset of violence don't make the sheep safe. Wolves who prey on the sheep don't make the sheep safe. During the American Revolution about 10% of the population took up arms and fought. Today, less than 1% of the population volunteers to join the Armed Forces. Of those, about 10% shoot anything. (Except in the Marine Corps where everyone is supposed to be a rifleman, ya sort of.) So we, sheepdogs, really are the 1 percenters. --- We train people from churches all over the country.We often get push back from those who don't want guns in their church. They say that this is God's house and that God will protect us. We try to explain to them that that is superstition. -- Col. Dave Grossman Christian theology advocates armed self-defense. “Then Jesus said to His disciples, whoever does not have a sword should sell his coat and buy a sword.”– Jesus of Nazareth, Luke 22:36, New Life Version of the Bible "Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked." -- Nehemiah 4:17-18 "... each had his weapon, even when he went for water." -- Nehemiah 4:23, New International Version Bible ---Islamic State Supporter In Michigan Planned Massacre at Mega-Churchhttp://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/02/08/islamic-state-supporter-in-michigan-planned-massacre-at-mega-church/Excerpt: He told the FBI why he thought the church would make a good target: “It’s easy and a lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church."

Operativo “Cisne negro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPhFWHJsgkc Watch the helmet cam footage of the raid that resulted in the capture of the Mexican Cartel drug lord known as “El Chapo.” The soldiers ended up killing five of El Chapo’s bodyguards and wounding several more. Watch the tactics. These guys are fairly well trained. The raid got chaotic at times, but they did a pretty good job clearing a very difficult structure. Only one of the Marines was wounded in the 15 minute gunfight. Note how they use barricades and cover in the running gunfight. Note how they fight from the hallways and make limited penetration into the rooms. Note how slowly they go. If your SWAT team is busting in to every target as fast as possible and “running the walls” of every room, your tactics are out of date. Slow down. Have good command and control. Cover every uncleared area. Then clear the structure room by room, doing the majority of your work from outside in the hallway before you physically enter the room. -- Active Response Training

SSgt., I read the little section about the Glock mag baseplates and I too struggled with em until I discovered a secret about the mags. There is a plate on the base of the spring. That's what you're pushing in through that little hole in the bottom. This plate is near the same dimension as the inside of the mag body. If you push that in just a fraction of an inch, it's still in the area that you'll apply the clamp. Using a small Phillips screwdriver, I push that plate in as deep as I can. Then you can use your fingers to squeeze the mag body or (as I prefer) use a pair of pliers to squeeze. Once squeezed, hold firmly and remove the screwdriver. The plate will come down a little but stop above where you're pliers are squeezing the mag body. Then easily slide the base plate off. Hope this helps you and if you could spread the word, maybe it'll help many others!Semper Fi,Sgt. Swat

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Jon, As always, thanks for putting this together. A comment on the “Prescription Shooting Glasses” notes. As a lifelong wearer of prescription glasses, and of course with multiple focal fields for the last 30 years I have an acute sense of the problem of clearly seeing the front sight. And I can tell that looking at this from 70+ years the issue only gets worse as time passes. So I offer this: For use in handgun use in hunting, competition, and generally on the range, having these special shooting glasses is an excellent method to be able to continually “dig out the front sight” and make your hits. BUT – I’d suggest that for defensive handgun use one should also train to use whatever vision you have when you are walking on the street. There will be no opportunity to say: “Wait a moment mister bad guy, let me put my specially adapted shooting glasses on first”. You must go with what you’ve got. And so some drills with “what you’ve got” are also in order. Other solutions to mitigate the problem (of older age vision) might be (a) get an oversized and/or very bright front sight or (b) get a red dot sight mounted on your pistol.I’m sure there are other successful solutions as well, but these two work for me. My smaller guns (when I carry them) have a bright luminescent light tube for the front sight, the larger ones on which I can mount a Trijicon RMR Red dot (which I usually carry) have that. One could write a whole book on this issue, I just want to make the point that one also needs to train with what you’ve got for defensive shooting scenarios.Tom

--- Notes from the Sheepdog Seminarhttp://sheepdogseminars.com/on protecting your church, school, etc. We are at war. The terrorists are here in our country. They are preparing and training.- What every speaker said, "Train, train, train!"If you carry a gun without training, you are worse than useless, you are dangerous. If you apply a tourniquet, without knowing what you're doing, the victim could bleed to death or you could cause an unnecessary amputation. Your church safety team should have medical personel, technical (the persons who are physically in the building on a regular basis, custodial, janitorial, and maintenance personel), and protection (the trained and armed personel). If there is any chance that you can't identify the friendlies, use banners. You keep them in a pouch on your belt and pull them out and drape them over your torso (as in the Miss America pagent where the banner says "Miss Tennessee"). Do a risk survey. You can't analyze or plan without the facts. Lock the doors. Keep it simple. Know what the insurance policy says. Network with other churches and law enforcement. Train and drill. Reacting to an emergency with well trained personel is like playing Jazz music. Everyone is not reading off the same sheet of music, as this would be unrealistic, because you cannot predict the situation. Everyone is ad libbing. Train your women, because they are primary targets of rape and other crimes. For those who don't want to carry a gun, hold classes on pepper spray. The Department of Homeland Security says that terrorist groups monitor church web sites. This statement is not classified and was cleared for release at the seminar. Don't expect to be understood. The limp dick liberals will mock you, and demand that the church be a gun free zone. Be strong and fight because you are right. All mass murders occur in gun free zones. Keep a rifle in your car. Terrorists will have body armor and helments. So, you need something that can penetrate. Shotguns are suboptimal, because you can carry an ammo can of 1000 rifle rounds, but you need a wheelbarrow to carry 1000 shotgun rounds. Keep smoke grenades in your car. Of course, you have to practice with these tools to be able to use them effectively. You will win if you are prepared. Practice your tactical shooting. Practice your martial arts."A golf course is a willful misuse of a rifle range."-- Col. Dave Grossman You will not panic or flee, because love quenches fear.- A group of us from my church went to the Sheepdog Seminar in Chattanooga yesterday (Saturday, 1/30/16).http://www.sheepdogsafetytraining.com/We learned a lot. All mass murderers in recent American history have one thing in common. They watch violent movies repeatedly and to excess (for instance watching "Natural Born Killers" 50 times, which would not have been physically possible in earlier times) and play violent video games (e.g. Grand Theft Auto, et al) repeatedly and to excess. This caused a Pavlovian conditioning. They associated violence with good feelings and getting rewards. The Hollywood activist who claim that violent movies and games do not cause violence in our society are lying to you.Please avoid violent video games and movies. Please prevent your children from watching violent movies and playing violent video games.-Run, Hide, Fight If anyone attacks your school, church, etc., RUN! People who hide get killed, when the bad guys find them.You can't be killed if you aren't there. [This is the tactically and statistically correct thing to do. No matter what anyone else says. Remember, public school teachers, public school principals, firemen, and policemen all work for the government,so their priority is to protect the government from liability. Why else would gun free zones exist? Gun free zones create unarmed victims for armed criminals to prey upon. All mass murders occur in gun free zones.] If you are trapped and cannot run, lock the door and barricade all paths to your HIDE. If the enemy finds you, FIGHT! Gouge eyes. This will give you time to escape. Stomp on feet in close to the shin, not on the toes. The small bones of the foot are easily broken. The enemy likely has steel toed boots or combat boots, and stomping on the toes is generally not effective. This will give you time to escape.BITE! Anywhere, but especially on the sides of the neck to tear the carotid arteries. Use the teeth in the front of your mouth, not your molars. The intent is to tear the flesh, not to masticate. This will give you time to escape. May you never have occasion to Run, Hide, Fight.But if you do, remember, your loved ones are depending on you.

We always teach not to resist law enforcement,but you have to be sure the person is a law enforcement officer.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/27/hundreds-dhs-badges-guns-cell-phones-lost-or-stolen-since-2012.htmlAnd that's not easy to do. When I was issued my courier card in the Marine Corps, we were given a briefing. During the briefing, they told us about an incident in which uniformed law enforcement officers in marked cars pulled over the couriers and attempted to arrest the couriers.The couriers explain to the officers that they were couriers and showed the LEO's their courier cards.The couriers told the LEO's that they were carrying classified material and could not allow the LEO's to arrest them. ...The couriers ended up shooting and killing the LEO's.We were told that that was the correct thing to do.And that we were expected to do likewise.(If they had been real LEO's, it would have been a full blown international incident.) Being a Marine aint easy. We came real close to this in Kyrgyzstan in 2000. The cops were demanding a bribe and we were ready to shoot the cops. But, our local guide was able to get the cops to accept the money that we had.